Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (1853)
- Literature (366)
- (-) Modern prose (366)
- Prose (366)
- Reading (366)
- English (365)
- Language (5)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (4)
- Punctuation (3)
- Commas (1)
- Direct speech (1)
- Drama (1)
- Form and structure (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Planning essays (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Sentence construction (1)
- Themes (1)
- Varying sentences (1)
- Writing for purpose and audience (1)
- Writing skills (1)
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (767)
- Post-1900 (59)
- John Steinbeck (40)
- Of Mice and Men (40)
- Angela Carter (24)
- William Golding (24)
- Lord of the Flies (23)
- Susan Hill (22)
- The Woman in Black (22)
- Wise Children (22)
- Roddy Doyle (18)
- Harper Lee (17)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (17)
- Fiction (15)
- George Orwell (13)
- About a Boy (11)
- Nick Hornby (11)
- Wilderness (11)
- Animal Farm (10)
- Fiction (10)
- Ian McEwan (10)
- Theresa Breslin (10)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (10)
- Lloyd Jones (9)
- Mister Pip (9)
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (8)
- Dai Sijie (8)
- Bali Rai (7)
- Joe Simpson (7)
- Mildred D. Taylor (7)
- Morris Gleitzman (7)
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (7)
- Rani and Sukh (7)
- Roddy Doyle (7)
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (7)
- Touching the Void (7)
- John Danalis (6)
- Riding the Black Cockatoo (6)
- Sebastian Barry (6)
- The Secret Scripture (6)
- Two Weeks with the Queen (6)
- Chinua Achebe (5)
- Cold Comfort Farm (5)
- Enduring Love (5)
- Stella Gibbons (5)
- Things Fall Apart (5)
- Anita and Me (4)
- Athol Fugard (4)
- Bill Bryson (4)
- Graham Greene (4)
- Kate Atkinson (4)
- Kevin Brooks (4)
- Margaret Atwood (4)
- Martyn Pig (4)
- Meera Syal (4)
- Notes from a Small Island (4)
- Robert Swindells (4)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (4)
- Tsotsi (4)
- White Teeth (4)
- Zadie Smith (4)
- 1984 (3)
- Birdsong (3)
- Brighton Rock (3)
- Buddy (3)
- Crooks (3)
- Gothic (3)
- Khaled Hosseini (3)
- L.P. Hartley (3)
- Lennie (3)
- Michael Morpurgo (3)
- Nigel Hinton (3)
- Sebastian Faulks (3)
- The Catcher in the Rye (3)
- The Child in Time (3)
- The Go-Between (3)
- Anthony Horowitz (2)
- Artemis Fowl (2)
- Atonement (2)
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum (2)
- Beloved (2)
- Cirque du Freak (2)
- Curley’s wife (2)
- Darren Shan (2)
- Eoin Colfer (2)
- J.D. Salinger (2)
- Michael Frayn (2)
- Michael Morpurgo (2)
- Modern (2)
- Spies (2)
- The Bloody Chamber (2)
- The Kite Rider (2)
- Toni Morrison (2)
- When Will There Be Good News? (2)
- Abomination (1)
- An Inspector Calls (1)
- Anita Desai (1)
- Canon Fire (1)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- Cormac McCarthy (1)
- Cosmic (1)
- David Almond (1)
- Deborah Ellis (1)
- Fasting, Feasting (1)
- Frank Cottrell Boyce (1)
- Heroes (1)
- History (1)
- Iain Banks (1)
- J.B. Priestley (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- John Fowles (1)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1)
- Michael Foreman (1)
- Never Let Me Go (1)
- Property (1)
- Ralph (1)
- Robert Cormier (1)
- Skellig (1)
- Stephanie Meyer (1)
- Stone Cold (1)
- The Breadwinner (1)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1)
- The Kite Runner (1)
- The Road (1)
- The Wasp Factory (1)
- Thomas Hardy (1)
- Twilight (1)
- Valerie Martin (1)
- War Game (1)
Resource type
Exam board
Inference
What are inference skills?
Inference skills are a type of thinking skill that enables you to make guesses, assumptions and predictions based on prior knowledge. To be able to draw inferences is a higher-order skill in reading comprehension and teaching inference is an important part of reading instruction. The inference process begins in the early years where young learners are asked questions about picture books
Reading comprehension resources to develop inference skills
Our collection of worksheets, PowerPoints and reading comprehension texts includes inference tasks on character traits, inference questions based on biographies of historical figures and quizzes to develop and improve inferencing skills.
For more resources to develop reading comprehension strategies, see our main comprehension page. You might also like our comprehension teaching packs: Reading at KS1, Comprehension at lower KS2, Comprehension at upper KS2, Reading SATs practice for KS2 and Raising reading skills. With clear links to National Curriculum objectives, they each include a range of text extracts, SATs-style inference questions and reading strategies to embed essential reading comprehension skills.